It is believed that the health of blood vessels deteriorates significantly with age – especially after 70 years.
Due to the deterioration of the vessels and their elasticity increased blood pressure and decreases the quality of life. However, according to a recent study published in the journal Hypertension, the vessels to maintain healthy until old age, and this can help in a healthy lifestyle.
Researchers at the Framingham heart study (experiment continued for nearly 70 years in Framingham, Massachusetts), National Institute of heart, lung and blood and Boston University found that a healthy diet and lifestyle to successfully counteract aging vessels.
The experiment involved 3,200 men and women over fifty years. 18% of them met the criteria for healthy ageing vessels. Moreover, in the first age group 50 – 59 years of healthy vessels was 30% of participants and in the group older than 70 years of just one percent, and women were more likely than men.
Also the chances of healthy vessels was higher in people with relatively low body mass index (that is, those who were not overweight) and those who did not have diabetes or prediabetes States.
Scientists also found that those study participants who performed at least six of the seven “rules for a healthy heart,” American Association for the study of heart disease, had a ten times higher chance to meet the criteria for healthy ageing vessels than those who do not meet any of these rules.
Rules, by the way, useful and reasonable:
1. Monitor blood pressure: it is desirable that it was 120/80 millimeters or below.
2. To control cholesterol: keep the level below 200 mg per deciliter (11 mmol).
3. To monitor the level of blood glucose: fasting glucose should be less than 5.5 mmol.
4. Lead an active lifestyle: every week exercise with moderate intensity at least 150 minutes or intensely not less than 75 minutes.
5. Eat well, follow a diet good for the heart: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, salads, dairy products with low fat content, poultry without skin, fish. On the contrary, you should limit red meat, saturated fats and traseira, salt and sugar.
6. Watch your weight: body mass index should be below 25 pounds (BMI is calculated as follows: weight in kilograms divided by squared height in meters).
7. Quit Smoking: chance of a healthy heart and blood vessels more than those who never smoked, but even those who quit Smoking are more likely to be healthy than those who continue to smoke.
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